TY - BOOK AU - Perreault,William D. AU - McCarthy,E.Jerome TI - Basic marketing: a global-managerial approach SN - 0256139903 SN - 987025613 AV - HF5415.13 .M369 PY - 1996/// CY - Chicago PB - Irwin KW - Marketing KW - Management N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Marketing's role in the global economy -- Marketing's role within the firm or nonprofit organization -- Finding target market opportunities with market segmentation -- Evaluating opportunities in the changing marketing environment -- Getting information for marketing decisions -- Demographic dimensions of global consumer markets -- Behavioral dimensions of the consumer market -- Business and organizational customers and their buying behavior -- Elements of product planning for goods and services -- Product management and new-product development -- Place and development of channel systems -- Logistics and distribution customer service -- Retailers, wholesalers, and their strategy planning -- Promotion -- introduction to integrated marketing communications -- Personal selling -- Advertising and sales promotion -- Pricing objectives and policies -- Price setting in the business world -- Developing innovative marketing plans -- Implementing and controlling marketing plans: evolution and revolution -- Managing marketing's link with other functional areas -- Ethical marketing in a consumer-oriented world: appraisal and challenges ER -